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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 07:54:45 -0800
From: Fangrui Song <i@...kray.me>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@...hat.com>
Cc: Eleanor Bartle <eleanor@...anor-nb.com>, Markus Wichmann <nullplan@....net>
Subject: Re: Care about Symbol Namespacing?
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 5:46 AM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/28/23 00:17, Fangrui Song wrote:
> > GNU symbol versioning is actually a system that provides the import
> > file information: vn_file. However, glibc rtld does not utilize
> > vn_file to speed up symbol searches. In addition,
> >
> >> https://maskray.me/blog/2020-11-26-all-about-symbol-versioning#version-script
> >> vn_file is essentially ignored for symbol search since glibc 2.30
> >> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24741 . Previously
> >> during relocation resolving, after an object failed to provide a
> >> match, if it matched vn_file, rtld would report an error `symbol %s
> >> version %s not defined in file %s with link time reference`.
>
> This change in glibc was intentional.
Yes. I agree that dropping the error is useful for symbol versioning.
> I agree with Rich here that static linking
> should be treated as a first class feature and glibc has moved towards ensuring
> that dynamic and static linking behaviour is more similar.
The similarity between archives and shared objects is a vague concept.
That said, I have tried to figure out the similar parts at
https://maskray.me/blog/2021-05-16-elf-interposition-and-bsymbolic#elf-interposition
* If a dynamic symbol is defined by multiple components, they don't conflict.
* For a symbol lookup (due to a relocation like
R_*_JUMP_SLOT/R_*_GLOB_DAT/absolute relocation/etc), the definition
from the first component wins.
* Definitions from subsequent components are overridden.
We can still add Solaris direct bindings style symbol search while
preserving these properties.
> The exception here is
> that in glibc the goal will be to give developers the option to disallow
> dlopen() from a statically linked application; thus providing the developer
> assurances that nothing else will be loaded (important when crossing namespace
> boundaries, particularly mount namespaces).
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>
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